Alan G Isaac wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Anne Archibald apparently wrote:
>> You can't just do "import scipy" and access the subpackages, because
>> that would mean that a bare "import scipy" had to recursively load all
>> subpackages, which can be expensive many shared libraries
>> to load, for example.
>> OK. I guessed that would be the answer.
>>> This is standard behaviour for python packages.
>> As I warned, it was a naive question.
> As a user, what I notice of course is that some
> subpackages are immediately available (e.g.,
> random and fft) and that others are not.
That's numpy, not scipy. numpy is just small enough for that to be feasible.
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